Looking for something to inspire your local choir or choral society? Our extensive range of choral repertoire includes works for Mixed Choir, Male Voice Choir, Female Voice Choir, Children’s & Youth Choirs, and Senior’s Choir, singing a Capella, with piano accompaniment, and with various other ensembles up to full orchestra.
Choral singing began to take form in the 9th & 10th Centuries, with the unison Gregorian Chant or Plain Chant. From the early Renaissance period, through composers like Palestrina , di Lasso and William Byrd true polyphonic choral music blossomed, and crescendo-ed through to a wonderful climax with Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium for 40 parts, divided into 8 choirs.
As the form developed through the Renaissance into the Baroque period, composers such as Bach, Telemann and Händel gave the choir more and more autonomy, and through early operas and oratorios, married solo voices, choirs and orchestras together, to create these new musical forms, and inspired audiences with combinations of colours and sounds they had never before experienced.
Although there were many operas and oratorios written in the Classical period, sacred music also took a prominent role in shaping the development of choral music. While the chorus became a very useful tool on stage, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven composed many Masses, Requiems, Te Deums and Anthems to help brighten the world of church music, and uplift the hearts and souls of the congregation.
As opera continued to expand and stretch dramatic boundaries, choral music of the Romantic period was characterised by choral motets and anthems, and the oratorio grew into an even more varied and contrasting form. The oratorios Elijah and Paul are particularly noteworthy, since despite using Sacred themes, through the various musical facets at Mendelssohn’s disposal, they began to take on a much more operatic narrative. This can also be seen in the Requiems of Brahms and Verdi, where the choir itself, along with the orchestra, lead the dramatic storytelling.
Through the 20th Century, composers such as Ralf Vaughan Williams, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar composed extensively for varying choral forces. Through these composers and many others, we begin to see choirs being tested and stretched, both technically and dramatically, and being pushed out of their comfort zone in order to inspire, shock and entice the audience. Works like Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden made a huge impact on the choral landscape.
In the modern era, new choral genres such as Gospel Choir, Pop Ensembles and Jazz & Swing emerged. Composers like John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Bob Chilcott and Andrew Lloyd Webber have become very popular.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532584
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532574
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1655142
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1654714
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano; cello ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1654699
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1654515
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1654513
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1652718
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815518
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815160
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805147
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 804947
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 777316
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777307
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 776673
for: Mixed choir (SATB); violin ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 768121
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 768112
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 768075
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 766166
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 766115
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 765910
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Score
Item no.: 691466
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 690704
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 798093
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 798069
from "Coco"
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 797850
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 797841
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 797839
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 797723
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 797635
for: School class
Set of parts
Item no.: 798570
for: School class
Music score, online media
Item no.: 798540
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 798377
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798310
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 798168
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 798160
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 798159
for: Soloist, women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 744972
for: Mixed choir (SATBarB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 744872
(From Frozen II)
Music From The Movies
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 697385
Disney Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 696938
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Score
Item no.: 763139
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 762092
Rollo Dillworth Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 762072
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 762030
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 762016
(Reprise)
from Rent
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 761948
(Choral Medley)
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 746370
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